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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: growing boredom, connections, and a good treasure map.

Acid Wizard Studios - the developer behind 2017's stupendous top-down survival horror Darkwood - has announced an indefinite, years-long hiatus, just months after unveiling its first new game in half a decade, Soccer Kids.

Let's Build a Zoo, the cheerful tycoon game with a thing for DNA splicing, is almost ready to swim with the fishes; its previously announced Aquarium Odyssey DLC finally has a release date and will be making a splash on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch next Thursday, 17th August.

If it's quick you want then it's quick you'll get this weekend, as Flame Fatales - the summer all-women charity speedrunning event from the Games Done Quick team - returns for another seven days of impressively speedy gaming feats.

With QuakeCon 2023 now underway, id Software's much-rumoured Quake 2 remaster has finally been made official - and it's out now for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, PC, and Game Pass.

Destiny developer Bungie has discussed how it plans to continue the character of Commander Zavala following the death of voice actor Lance Reddick earlier this year.

Portal Escape Chamber DLC is heading to Escape Simulator, endorsed by Valve.

Altagram, the translation company which was found to have not credited staff who worked for years on Baldur's Gate 3, has issued a lengthy public apology and a list of commitments to change.

I'd say that Turbo Overkill is the best boomer shooter I've played, but I'm still figuring out whether it counts as a boomer shooter at all. Like its cyborg protagonist, much of Turbo Overkill's core DNA has been augmented with newer, shinier design ideas. It borrows as much from games like Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2 as it does from the classics of the nineties. It has upgradable weapons, character perks, driveable vehicles, detailed first-person cutscenes, all played out on a scale that simply wouldn't have been possible back in 1997.

The new Lords of the Fallen is shaping up pretty nicely, and it's certainly a looker in terms of pure detail. Some followers of the upcoming Soulslike, however, have been curious about how it'll run on their hardware, ever since developer Hexworks revealed some relatively high PC spec requirements without much of an idea for target performance.

It's impossible not to define Lords of the Fallen in FromSoftware's terms. With its capital-D Dark Fantasy world and its dodge rolls and healing flasks and monster factory characters, Hexworks - a collective of two studios in Barcelona and Bucharest that's still a part of the same CI Games that co-developed the first Lords of the Fallen, back in 2014 - has defined itself into a certain class, a specifically challenging weight category and, in the process, squared up to one of video games' all-time super heavyweight champions of the world. I'm not sure they've picked a fair fight.

Larian has released a new hotfix for Baldur's Gate 3 that solves a game-breaking bug which was corrupting player saves.

The author of a book telling the story of Tetris' creation has launched a lawsuit against the makers of this year's Tetris movie.

Film producer Charles Roven is "definitely looking to make another" Uncharted film adaptation.

The official Pokémon Center shop has launched its latest plush toy - and it's for Wiglett, the long, pink-tipped worm-like creature that stands erect at 10-and-a-quarter inches.

Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis is set to release on iOS and Android on 7th September.

Narrative adventure developer Telltale has snapped up Flavourworks, the UK-based studio behind FMV game Erica.

An update for Halo Infinite has been released including a new map, bug fixes, and switching off Personal AI chatter.

It's been 10 years since acclaimed "dystopian document thriller" Papers, Please first released, and to celebrate that milestone, developer Lucas Pope has released an official Game & Watch inspired demake, as well as discounting the original by 80% on all platforms.

As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Obsidian Entertainment has been airing a documentary series digging into the studio's history, and the newly aired final episode has a little to say about its future too, sharing a few details on the upcoming Avowed, including the revelation it started life as a co-op experience before pivoting to a single-player RPG.

Following the official unveiling of Modern Warfare 3 earlier this week, Activision has confirmed players will be able to transfer a "vast amount" of previously acquired Modern Warfare 2 content over to this year's sequel when it launches in November.

Atlas Fallen feels like a dream. Not because it's incredible, but because it's already hazy. My memories of it are comfortably curled alongside memories playing Warhammer: Space Marine, Darksiders, Kingdoms Of Amalur, and other X360/PS3 action games that I just about remember the names of. That boils down to the fact that Atlas Fallen's combat is good fun, sometimes really good fun, but it's too often bogged down by, well, almost everything else. Though I still have a sneaking suspicion that I'll look back at the game in 10 years, mistakenly call it Atlas Rising, and then have fond but hazy flashbacks of the button-mashing monster-smasher.

Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has said it has taken "immediate" steps to ensure localisation staff currently left out of the game's credits are listed in full via a future patch.

Sony has announced the next round of games joining its PlayStation Plus subscription service this month.

Flashback 2, the sequel to Delphine Software's classic 16-bit sci-fi puzzle-platformer, now has a release date and is launching for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 16th November. And to celebrate the news, developer Microids has shared a fresh look at the game in action, this time showcasing its sprawling city of New Washington.

A roleplaying musical. How exciting! How intriguing! So many games have mixed genres with rhythm, now it's the turn to put narrative to melody: a musical as a video game.

In February 2015, The Order: 1886 came and went. This third-person narrative-driven action game arrived on PS4 with plenty of hype, but it delivered what felt like a prologue for a larger concept and achieved a lowly Metacritic score of just 63. Some loved it of course, but the game never received a sequel or even a PS4 Pro upgrade.

Take-Two, the publisher behind the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, is once again telling investors to expect something very big to arrive next year.

Nintendo has patented Link's Ultrahand and Fuse abilities from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Sony has now shipped 41.7m PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, according to the firm's latest financial results.